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Words Of Wisdom on 27 October 2008
BenKenobi88 said:

AHHHH I'M LATE.

I'M LATE TO THE THREAD.


A) AI Director. It makes every game unique...the same replayability of an online multiplayer game like CS, TF2, Halo 3, whatever. It's not like Resistance, COD5, whatever, where it's the same game every time with co-op.

B) Valve. Trust Valve.

C) User maps.  Zombie mods of so many games were the thing for years and years.   Left 4 Dead was Turtle Rock's and now Valve's answer to everyones' mods...their own, superior "zombie mod," from which more mods can be made. Shopping malls, skyscrapers, space stations? Tons of maps are already being made.

D) I'm tired...I haven't been coming here enough lately...I'm too absorbed in the left4dead411.com forums and the official Steam forums, and I just bought Fallout 3 to keep me busy.

E) HOLY CRAP CHICAGO HAS GIANT L4D BILLBOARDS ON EVERY CORNER it's so great.

F) I'm sorry if I've been absent lately, I'll try to remedy it, but it's becoming increasingly hard.  Chances are the L4D demo comes out in a little over a week for pre-orderers, 2 weeks for the rest of the world.  2 weeks after waiting 2 years for this game?  AGH!

Ben is the source of roughly 87% of all L4D hype on vgChartz.

...

The rest of you are slacking.



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xman on 27 October 2008

Hype is good



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hunter_alien on 27 October 2008
BenKenobi88 said:

AHHHH I'M LATE.

I'M LATE TO THE THREAD.


A) AI Director. It makes every game unique...the same replayability of an online multiplayer game like CS, TF2, Halo 3, whatever. It's not like Resistance, COD5, whatever, where it's the same game every time with co-op.

B) Valve. Trust Valve.

C) User maps. Zombie mods of so many games were the thing for years and years. Left 4 Dead was Turtle Rock's and now Valve's answer to everyones' mods...their own, superior "zombie mod," from which more mods can be made. Shopping malls, skyscrapers, space stations? Tons of maps are already being made.

D) I'm tired...I haven't been coming here enough lately...I'm too absorbed in the left4dead411.com forums and the official Steam forums, and I just bought Fallout 3 to keep me busy.

E) HOLY CRAP CHICAGO HAS GIANT L4D BILLBOARDS ON EVERY CORNER it's so great.

F) I'm sorry if I've been absent lately, I'll try to remedy it, but it's becoming increasingly hard. Chances are the L4D demo comes out in a little over a week for pre-orderers, 2 weeks for the rest of the world. 2 weeks after waiting 2 years for this game? AGH!

 

Hmmmm... still not impressed :P Try harder :P ( jk ).



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SeriousWB on 27 October 2008

Simply because the game looks pretty damn good.



cool48 on 27 October 2008

The biggest reason I seem to not as interested is ,apparently the most popular reason for why people want to get the game: Zombies.

Oh my god! If there is a reason why I didn't enjoy HL2 it's Ravenholm.
I can't believe anybody enjoyed that! Shitting my pants for six hours isn't my type of fun.

Plus after playing through that part of the game, I became so freaking paranoid about everything, I was always scared a fricken headcrab/zombie would come running after me.



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TRios_Zen on 27 October 2008

FPS games tend to stick to fairly standard formulas; all out brawls (such as team deathmatch, capture-the-flag, etc) with unlimited re-spawns, or the more personal, one life/one death matches (think Search and Destroy from COD, or Execution/Warzone in Gears).

R2 seems to try to combine these two; small squads that have their own objectives as part of a much larger team. L4D combines these in another way...as part of the four, you have one life and have to survive the zombie attack. You work together as a team to defeat a horde of zombies. As a zombie, you have multiple re-spawns and your only goal is to kill the four.

The best of both worlds, mashed together by Valve. I am excited as hell for this game. Given Valves recent warming-up to the PS3, I'd be surprised if PS3 owners don't get their own version eventually. More time to get hyped for it I guess?



Skeeuk on 27 October 2008

im hoping this turns out to be a good game, we should have a ps3 port then



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BringBackChrono on 27 October 2008

@cool48
Ravenholm, an eastern European village conveniently filled with cutting discs, a more than generous helping of mind controlled zombies and a shotgun toting preacher. Seriously, whats not to like?



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vlad321 on 27 October 2008
BringBackChrono said:
@cool48
Ravenholm, an eastern European village conveniently filled with cutting discs, a more than generous helping of mind controlled zombies and a shotgun toting preacher. Seriously, whats not to like?

 

I was a little annoyed at the infinite spawns because they kept wasting my damn ammo and the crowbar works only 50% of the time before they hit you. Then the preacher came along...



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ZenfoldorVGI on 27 October 2008

It's made by one of the best developers in the world, who always make good games, and it has zombies in it.

I think that says it all.



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